News in Portugal
"Oh man this is just the best place to play shows," Portugal. The Man's bassist Zach Carothers told VIBE before taking to stage for a raging NYC show at Irving Plaza. If you haven't had the opportunity to listen to the beauty that is 'Portugal. The Man' (that's right, their presence demands a period), then now is perfect time to get down to it. The band's ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 10:40:01 -0400
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into Princess Cristina's tax returns after an earlier charge of being an accomplice in an embezzlement case against her husband was ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:41 -0400
LONDON - Gibraltar was accepted Friday as a full member by the UEFA Congress, becoming Europe's 54th official football nation.The move had previously been resisted by some politicians in neighboring Spain, who wanted to stop the British territory on Spain's southern tip from joining UEFA.The decision will allow Gibraltar to enter into the qualifying competition for the 2016 European ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 10:31:34 -0400
Gibraltar was accepted Friday as a full member by the UEFA Congress, becoming Europe's 54th official football nation. The move had previously been resisted by some politicians in neighbouring Spain, who wanted to stop the British territory on Spain's southern tip from joining UEFA. The decision will allow Gibraltar to enter into the qualifying competition for the 2016 European ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:46:37 -0400
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said Friday that the government may need to ease the deficit targets for 2014. "It isn't ruled out that further flexibility of the goals may be important for 2014," Mr. Passos Coelho told the parliament. Portugal's international lenders twice agreed to give the country more time to shrink its budget deficit amid growing ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:44:39 -0400
Spartak Moscow striker Artem Dzyuba for the first time since October but again overlooked experienced forwards Roman Pavlyuchenko and Pavel Pogrebnyak as well as former Russia captain Andrei Arshavin. Russia, who top Group F with maximum 12 points from four matches, face Portugal in Lisbon on June 7. The Portuguese are joint second along with Israel - a point behind - having played six games ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:44:38 -0400
Portuguese international Moutinho and Colombia's Rodriguez started after Porto clinched their third consecutive league title on Sunday. "I only got the news that there was interest on Sunday. We are negotiating," he said in an interview ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:44:37 -0400
PARIS -- The seven-year-old in the black-and-white photograph bit shyly on her finger, concealing a slight smile. Maria da Conceição TinaMelhorado looked at her long and hard. "I knew it was me," Ms. Melhorado, 54, said, recalling her first encounter with the image in 2010, when a friend called her about it. "But the date in the caption was off by a year, so I had ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:40:18 -0400
the Gibraltar FA won a case at the court of arbitration for sport obliging Uefa to accept the British overseas territory as a member.The Uefa president Michel Platini said that Gibraltar would be kept apart from Spain in qualifying for Euro 2016. "Gibraltar will not play qualifying matches with Spain - we also have this situation with Armenia and Azerbaijan,'' he said."This is ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 09:38:11 -0400
LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal is on course to meet this year's deficit target but the government may require a further easing of the goals agreed with its EU and IMF lenders for 2014, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Friday. Under the recently revised terms of a 78 billion euro ($100.6 billion) bailout agreed in 2011, Lisbon has to reduce the public deficit to 5.5 percent of gross ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 08:50:44 -0400
CCTV captured an unknown suspect attempting to withdraw money from Portugal's account. A businessman was bound up and tortured during a month in captivity after being snatched off a New York street in broad daylight by kidnappers who demanded a $3m ransom that his family in Ecuador did not have. Pedro Portugal, a father of six, was blindfolded, burned with acid and had several teeth knocked ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 07:55:38 -0400
Lack of Stringent U.S. CMBS Underwriting Could Affect REITs Changes in the availability, pricing, and underwriting stringency of U.S. CMBS financing could affect REITs directly and indirectly, according to Fitch Ratings. In addition, a boom-or-bust cycle for CMBS loan performance would negatively affect REITs that regularly access the CMBS ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55:14 -0400
DUBAI // The potential transfer of Hugo Viana to Al Ahli has moved a step closer with the player reportedly travelling to Dubai to discuss terms with the Pro League club. The Portuguese midfielder, currently employed by Sporting Braga, is believed to be keen on negotiating a two-year deal at the Rashid Stadium. His signing would appear to increase the likelihood of Quique Sanchez Flores ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 05:17:44 -0400
Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. In 1999, a researcher at the University of Harvard, Ishiro Kawachi, ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 05:10:04 -0400
letter to the editor . /inline-content --> Some things you must see for yourself to appreciate their scale and grandeur: Mount Rushmore, the Palace of Versailles, Arlington National Cemetery, Jay Leno's cranium. You can add Macau to that list. Las Vegas dubs itself the gaming capital of the world, but that's a moniker more soaked in nostalgia than in reality. It's the same as ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 05:09:55 -0400
LOS BANOS -- A celebration that's part religious and part cultural and nearly 100 years old kicks off today.The 99th annual Holy Ghost Festa, which stretches over three days, is steeped in the traditions of the Portuguese immigrants who settled on the West Side.Committee President Rosalyn Garcia said she expects several hundred to attend the Sunday procession and meal. Sopas, a Portuguese ...
Fri, 24 May 2013 01:30:38 -0400
Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley believes Spain's blueprint of blending youth with experience is the way forward for England.The Spaniards are aiming for their fourth consecutive major trophy in Brazil next year - with two European Championships and one World Cup so far - something no other nation has ever done.And Cleverley believes emulating Vicente del Bosque's approach of ...
Thu, 23 May 2013 22:32:05 -0400
Animal rights activists pretending to be bulls stuck through with banderillas lie on the ground covered with mock blood during a protest against bullfighting in Barcelona May 23, 2013. The activists collected signatures to present to the government in protest against a draft law currently in parliament that would protect bullfighting as part of Spain's heritage and national interest. ...
Thu, 23 May 2013 22:00:14 -0400
Portugal rolled out a new fiscal incentive for companies on Thursday, saying it will allow a 20 percent tax deduction on investments of up to 5 million euros to help drag the bailed-out economy out of a deep recession. Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar said the fiscal credit measure was an "innovative and unprecedented" move that will serve as catalyst for economic growth and jobs creation, ...
Thu, 23 May 2013 19:42:01 -0400
MADRID (Reuters) - Small investors in shares of in Spain's nationalised lender Bankia suffered new massive losses on Thursday as the stock plunged by more than 50 percent amid an abnormally high volume of trading which the stock market regulator said would be looked at closely.Tens of thousands of small savers, who were often missold preference shares and hybrid debt in Bankia, swapped their ...
Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:21 -0400
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